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Old 26th January 2013, 02:14 AM   #1134
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Originally Posted by Rwalsh View Post
When Christopher Columbus First disovered the earth wasnt flat near the end of the 1500's.
The fact that the earth wasn't flat was known for centuries before Columbus.

ETA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Earth

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The paradigm of a spherical Earth was developed in Greek astronomy, beginning with Pythagoras (6th century BC), although most Pre-Socratics retained the flat Earth model. Aristotle accepted the spherical shape of the Earth on empirical grounds around 330 BC, and knowledge of the spherical Earth gradually began to spread beyond the Hellenistic world from then on.[5][6][7][8] The misconception that educated Europeans at the time of Columbus believed in a flat Earth, and that his voyages refuted that belief, has been referred to as the Myth of the Flat Earth.[9] In 1945, it was listed by the Historical Association (of Britain) as the second of 20 in a pamphlet on common errors in history.[10]
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